After three-and-a-half years, I needed to get myself a brand new smartphone. And never due to anything besides the digital camera on the telephone. I used to be going to be graduating from the Pixel 3 XL, which had finished a LOT over the past three-and-a-half years. An in depth pal occurred to be touring in from Canada and I ended up asking her to get me two Google Pixel 6 Professional gadgets. One for myself – clearly – and one for my Dad, who’s the OG photographer of the fam.
The colour blew me away proper off the bat. I believed the blues had been a bit too blue? However since I depend on Adobe Lightroom for my edits and I anyway are likely to make the blue a bit extra cyan and up the lightness, I truly ended up getting extra leeway to play with the sky. And the “Choose Sky” masks in Lightroom Cellular is AMAZING. So, higher to have one thing to tone down, than so as to add pointless saturation to the blues.
And the huge angle lens. I believe I’m obsessive about the huge angle digital camera on this telephone – most of my gallery in Google Photographs, at the least for the primary few weeks, was fully huge angle pictures. Of outdated buildings in Rajasthan, to rose bushes in Mukteshwar, to mountains and sunsets in Ranikhet.
The colour fringing in landscapes, particularly in terms of having timber in shadow towards the brilliant sky, is horrendously annoying. I’m nonetheless engaged on what tweaks in Lightroom it could take to eliminate the colour fringing however no luck to date. I’ve tried the same old, “Take away Chromatic Aberration” however to no avail. The choice that has helped a bit is the “Colour Noise Discount”, which takes away many of the shade fringing however not all. I’ve additionally tried making the purples extra blue – as a result of essentially the most seen shade fringing, tree in sky, tends to be purple. That helps a bit extra.
All the pictures of me within the olive inexperienced jacket have NOT been shot on the Pixel 6 Professional. These have been shot on a DSLR. Dad’s Pixel was not obtainable for this shoot, so we needed to make-do with the opposite digital camera. All pictures shot by Akanksha.
For a few of the pictures from my picture gallery, which have been shot on the Pixel 6 Professional, please scroll in the direction of the top of this weblog publish.
I’ve by no means been a fan of the compelled zoom lenses – the small print are shit, generally. I’m not going to be evaluating tech specs and such – that’s by no means my aim with evaluating a digital camera – if I like what I see and if I’m able to see potential in a scene and I’m able to seize it after which edit it to the shape that I had envisioned, then I’m a contented camper.
Now to the part that exhibits you a few of my pictures shot on the Google Pixel 6 Professional. Plenty of huge angle pictures, portraits, and so on. These are all edited in Lightroom for Cellular. The {photograph} of the yellow sandstone structure that you simply see on the telephone display above in all the pictures, that {photograph} is of Nachna Haveli in Jaisalmer. An analogous picture can be included beneath.
I’ve additionally included some macro pictures – the macro lens could be a bit flimsy to deal with as a result of now you may have three cameras that you would experiment with, but it surely’s nonetheless value it. I’ve written concerning the macro lens that I’ve used for the pictures, beforehand.
It has been a very long time since I felt like taking part in gown up for a branded machine when it’s not even one thing I’m engaged on for the model. So you possibly can think about how a lot I, typically, love the digital camera on Google smartphones. I do know there was this entire factor with, “Ought to I get the October 2021 launched Pixel 6 Professional in Might 2022 or ought to I simply look forward to October 2022 and die of space for storing frustration on my Pixel 3 XL?” Who am I kidding – it was a no brainer. I knew pal was coming from Canada. I knew I used to be DYING to get a brand new telephone. I knew I wanted to make picture footage after the final malaise that has set in throughout the pandemic.
And identical to that, I traveled from Jaisalmer, to Bikaner, to Ranikhet, to Mukteshwar and ended up making some magnificent reminiscences and pictures. I’m lastly including Ranikhet Sundown pictures to my Version of Prints as effectively in my store.
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